One hundred percent go for USFF. Even the cheapest, most basic processor will smash server roles because it’s not having to power desktop applications, graphics, window managers, etc.

Yeah, that was the “oh, shit” moment for me too. I bought into the bullshit until that point.

Centralised, monolithic online services. Even when they were ‘good’, I was leery of services like YouTube, Facebook and WhatsApp because they made no attempt to be interoperable or peerable. Two GMail users will have a richer experience emailing with each-other than they would with someone on, say, Yahoo Email or an Exchange server, but it would always work, eventually, somehow. Obviously we now have the concept of the Fediverse, but federated peers forming ad-hoc connections using an lowest-common-denominator protocol is the basis of the whole Internet.

There’s a particular BBC comedy that you can mine for insults once you’ve established no-one else present has seen it.

• He’s so dense light bends around him.
• As useless as a marzipan dildo
• As useless as lube at a funeral
• I’ve never seen anyone look so fucking ugly with just one head
• Do you know 90% of household dust is made of dead human skin? That’s what you are to me.
• Watching him work is like watching clown running across a minefield.
• He’s here, depriving a village somewhere of their twat.
• I’m like flypaper for dickheads today.
• Sorry I’m late. Traffic was an absolute bitch. No offence.